The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-06-29
Buy west virgf,iia LANDS.

in the war for the Union.
Buy West Virginia Lands.
Huntington Advertiser.
There is a pretty general DISPOSE
tion now to invest surplus money in
town lots or otherreaI estate. This
is thesinstdnet of the people mani
isstfn itself Wild tic 1looill' itls
Testing the east, south and the west,
it cannot be very long before it
reaches the central portion of the.
United States and then West Yir-
ginia lands and town property will
share in the general rise that must
follow. The United States Treasur-
er has just issued a call for tho last
lot of three per cent. bonds so that
the funds until now invested in this
class of securities is to be turned
loose to seek some other sort of in
vestment. The Treasury statement
for May shows an increase in the
volume of money afoat of over $780,
100000 which promises to be further
augmented by the issue. of silver
certificates from time to time. This
must add to the entensity of the de-
sire for lands in which to place the
accumulated wealth of the people.
West Virginia offers exceptionable
advantages for the investment in
lands as the prices at which they
may be bought is exceedingly low
when we consider their real value.
1t has been the custom of the rail-
roads to 'tax the traffic all it would
bear, or, in other words, to ascer-
tain the cost of producing the article
and what it will bring in the mark
cts and take the difference for
freight charges. This has had the
effect to made every owner of real
estate force it on the market because
it was Improbable to farm or pro
duce anything in West Virginia
lands. Now this is in the main,
changed by the operation of the in
ter-State Commerce law, and the
result will be, very soon, to show
that it isQrofitable to produce cattle,
grain, etc, on our farm lands. AS
soon as the few months necessary to
prove this have passed the great
bulk of West Virginia land will be
withdrawn from market and the
price of such as are offered greatly
enhanced. This will second the
boom that is promised from other
causes named and contribute to
make a large profit over present
prices of real estate. Our advice is
to put all your spare funds in West
Virginia real estate.
These Dominion fellows now
think they are having things all
their own way, but they can learn
something of an American trait
from the following chunk of frozen
truth clipped from the London
Times: "Americans put up with a
great deal which they do not like by
the aid of certain capacity for
taking a humorous view, which they.
possess in much larger measure
than ourselves; but point exists at
which they consider the joke has
gone quite far enough, and when
that point is reached they stamp out
the nuisance with a degree of energy
which is found very surprising and
disconcerting by the people who
thought they were having thingsall
their own way" Under the in
fiuence of the Home Government,
our friends across the border will
doubtless come to their senses with
a good degree of quickness and
completeness. This is as it should
be, and the government of this
country, with the approval of the
people, will be equally sensible and
,eonciliatory.
Henry George has befuddlcd a
good many people with his land
theories, but the days of this befud-
clement are near to their end. Mr.
George says that man should not
own land because he can not create
it by his labor. But land is worth
less till mans labor has improved it.
If Mr.. Georges theory We're follow
ed to its logical conclusion, every
thing that is not created by man
can not be owned by man. Sheep
and cattle are not created by man,
and therefore man must not have
ownership over their Increase
Wool would then belong to the
public.
The Virginia Democrats decided
to hold a convention at Roanoke,
Ar1gust 4, to devise the best means